Saturday, July 27 : Blessed Columba Marmion

There is also an excessive zeal, ever strained ever restless, tormented, agitated ; nothing is ever perfect enough for the soul possessed by this ardor. Benedict warns the Abbott wisely against this unseasonable zeal. ” Let him not be turbulent and over anxious, not impatient or self-opinionated, not zealous and prone to suspicion or else he will never be at rest” “In corrections let him act with prudence abd not committ any excess for fearr that in wanting to srip off the rust from thel vessel he not render it too clean that he break it!” It is of this zeal that our Lord speaks in the parable of the sower, when the servants ask the master of the field if they may go to pull up the weeds sown by the enemy, not thinking how they run the risk of also rooting up the good grain. “Wilt thou not that we go ? ” It is this zeal that carried away the disciples with indignation and made them want to call down fire from heaven upon the city of Samaria in punishment for not having received their Divine Master. ” Lord, wilt Thou ? ” But what does Christ Jesus reply to this headstrong ardour ? ” You know not of what spirit you are ” . The Son of man came not to destroy souls, but to save them.

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